My guess for the meaning of a "middle click" was to click on a reference somewhere in the
middle of the text of the reference, say, after the authors but before the journal.
My second guess would be something having to do with a "middle finger".
Click on the middle mouse button? Okay: With an Amazon mouse, can just press down on the scroll wheel. With an HP laptop with Windows 10, I just did that: What I got was a circle with a dot in the middle, above the dot an up arrow and below the dot a down arrow. Research is still in progress in an attempt to discover how this might be used to search for, say, the Radon-Nikodym theorem! Or for something simple
y(t) =
{ y(0) b e^{bkt} \over y(0) \big ( e^{bkt} - 1 \big ) + b}
Maybe could do a middle click on an iPhone and then use a scanning, tunneling electron microscope to read the screen image -- give me a few minutes to set that up!!!